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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 5, 2015, 2:08 PM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2015, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2015, 2:08 PM CST (20:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2015, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2015, 3:31 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 253 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Mar 4, 5:16 PM CST, 20 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 5:16 PM CST, 20 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:04 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 13 hr | |
| Mar 5, 1:54 PM CST | Freeze Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Victoria | 14 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.